tetrasyllable
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His eyes are deep-set and uncommonly circular; when he stretches them into surprise—often in accompaniment of a spiked tetrasyllable like “ri-di-cu-lous,” or “pre-pos-ter-ous,” or “Max Kel-ler-man”—they are perfect O’s.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 18, 2018
"One is monosyllabic, the other tetrasyllable," Spindrift begins.
From Time Magazine Archive
Each line ends with a trisyllable or a tetrasyllable, with dissyllabic rhyme running through the quatrain.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by R.A. Stewart MacAlister
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